The old sign-up process required you to sign-up for each of the services manually, Google has now streamlined the process to ensure that new users are immediately equipped with a Gmail and Google+ account as soon as their Google account has been registered.

Even though this new process was launched well before January, it took a while for people to catch on. Interestingly, it took a while for Blogger to jump on board with this new unified approach, but it’s live now.

Here’s what you’ll see when you sign up for a new Google account through Blogger:

After you move through through the initial step, you are presented with the option to create a blog that’s tied to a Google+ profile, or through Blogger’s previous profile system, which allows you to stay anonymous:

Even after you choose the old profile system, Google tries to get you to re-think the Google+ route:

In addition, if you already have a Google account, you can sign up for a new blog through Blogger and attach it to your Google+ profile, which will let you share posts to your stream easily.

In regards to this update, a Google spokesperson told TNW:

We’re working to develop a consistent sign-up flow across our different products as part of our efforts to create an intuitive, beautifully simple, Google-wide user experience. Making it quick and easy to create a Google Account and a Google+ profile enables new users to take advantage of everything Google can offer.

This means that Blogger now joins YouTube, Docs, Search, Gmail, and Google+ in getting the updated signup flow. Whether you agree with the strategy of unifying all of your Google activity into one account or not, it’s an obvious next step for a company who wants to make it easier to navigate the Web.

Furthermore, this supports my original musings on Google+, in that it’s become the social glue at Google and has kickstarted this brand new focus on unification rather than the original, and annoying, separation.